Marta Tonelli

Marta studied architecture at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where she graduated in 2017 with Mario Botta. In her formative years, she worked for the art and architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen in Concepcion, Chile (2012-2013), and with Made in, Geneva, Switzerland (2015-2016). In February 2018 she started the Master in photography at the Iuav University of Venice, where she graduated in 2019 under the supervision of Stefano Graziani, with whom she has extensively collaborated.

Since 2019 she has been collaborating with architecture historian and curator Nina Rappaport, founder of Vertical Urban Factory / Publications director at Yale School of Architecture.

Education
2018 - 2019 Master Iuav in Photography, Università Iuav di Venezia [IT]
2014 - 2017 Master in Scienze dell’Architettura, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Mendrisio [CH]
2010 - 2014 Bachelor in Scienze dell’Architettura, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Mendrisio [CH]

Collaborations with institutions, magazines, architectural studios, and other artists
- Università Iuav di Venezia https://www.c41magazine.com/the-cloud-above-the-cliff/
- Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, Roma https://fotografia.cultura.gov.it/iccd/scheda-attivita/IT-ICCD-CMS-0003-000004
- Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Concepcion [CL]
- Made in, Ginevra [CH]
- weber+winterle architetti, Trento [IT]
- Atelier Remoto, Trento e Bergamo [IT]
- Stefano Graziani, Trieste [IT]
- Rika Noguchi, Okinawa [JP]
- Pamela Breda, Londra [UK]
- Vertical Urban Factory, New York [US]
- Una Boccata d’Arte, a cura di Fondazione Elpis e Galleria Continua
- La Biennale di Venezia

Teaching activity
2023: School Of Public Architecture, Michael Graves College, Kean University, New Jersey, Stati Uniti
2020 - today: Master in photography, Università Iuav di Venezia
2020 - today: NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano and Isia Urbino, teaching assistant to Stefano Graziani's studio
2019 - 2020: Università Iuav di Venezia, Italia, teaching assistant to Laboratorio di fotografia held by Andrea Pertoldeo
2019: Politecnico di Milano, Polo di Piacenza, Italia, OC – Open City - International Summer School

Residencies and exhibitions
Small Miracles, curated by EAU&GAZ Residency Program, Castel Ganda, Appiano, 2023
A future ruin, curated by Josè Pedro Cortes, Parco Archeologico di Selinunte, 2022
Roma Subalterna, curated by Stefano Graziani and Emanuele De Donno, in collaboration with Museo delle Civiltà, Roma, 2022
Appena fuori dall’ordinario, curated by Alessandra Spranzi and Elena Turetti, Museo ‘L Zuf Vione, Valle Camonica, 2021
Surgiva loves Mart, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, curated by Luca Andreoni, 2019
F4/un’idea di Fotografia, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo, curated by Carlo Sala, 2019
Atlante del Master, MUFOCO, Cinisello Balsamo, 2019

Collective publications
Actuar en la emergencia. Repensar la agencia del diseño durante (y después de) la COVID-19, Real Academia Española en Roma, edito da ISIA Urbino
a, rivista dell’Ordine degli Architetti PPC della Provincia di Trento
An Unexpected Influencer. Aby Warburg as a Muse for Contemporary Visual Culture, curated by Chiara Capodici and Benedetta Cestelli Guidi
Interni Magazine, Milano
A plus A, Venezia
A+U Pezo von Ellrichshausen edizione monografica, Tokyo
Pig Quarterly Magazine, Family Issue, Milano
LIVING, Ediciones Casapoli, catalogo per la XVIII Chilean Arch. Biennale

Publications
Paolo Nestler und die Frage der Vergänglichkeit, curated by Gabriella Cianciolo Cosentino, Detail, Germany, 2023 
This is not a manual, curated by Giambattista Zaccariotto, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2022
The Quintessence, curated by Pamela Breda, 2021
In other places, photographic project developed between Austria, Italy, Spain, United States (2018-2019), self-published

Lectures
“The camera and the eye”, 2023, School Of Public Architecture, Michael Graves College, Kean University, New Jersey, Stati Uniti, Prof. Nina Rappaport
“Zum Bild, das Wort. Questions on photographic meaning”, 2020, Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (Design and Theory), Universität Stuttgart, prof. Arch. Matteo Trentini
“Fragile Landscapes”, 2019, presso Università di Genova, Dipartimento di Architettura e Design - Coastal Design Lab, Prof. Arch. Carmen Andriani
“Industrial Photography: an insight”, 2018, School Of Public Architecture, Michael Graves College, Kean University, New Jersey, Stati Uniti, Prof. Nina Rappaport